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Hyperbolic Discounting
Distant rewards shrink far faster than the maths says they should.
Distant rewards shrink far faster than the maths says they should. That is the claim, and it is the kind that looks obvious until we try to say where it stops. Where does it hold, where does it fail, and what changes once we can see it at work? That is a conversation, not a paragraph.
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- The Peak-End Rule
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